Legal Bytes: Courts Continue to Push Back against the Trump Administration We are not entirely sure what Donald Trump's batting average in lawsuits is these days, but it's gotta be below .200. Maybe even below .150. There were three substantial stories on the legal front this week, none of them pointing in a direction that is likely to get that batting average up: Slow Your Rolls: In the latest rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts to obtain state voter rolls, judges have dismissed Department of Justice lawsuits against Wisconsin and Maine. This brings the total won-loss record to 0-8, after similar suits against California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Rhode Island were dismissed. Judges across the political spectrum have rejected this federal overreach into states' election administration. In Maine, Chief U.S. District Judge Lance Walker, a Trump appointee, ruled that "Under our Constitution, states are the primary regulators and administrators of elections…
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